There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast.

“La persona más valiente que conozco, y eres mi amigo. Me importa un pimiento qu…”

“I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to…”

“He died alone,' said Pious Dundas, old as Methuselah, unblinking. 'It don't mat…”

“Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.”